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Old-school leftists are unhappy with Obama's America.

At Salon.com two old-school leftists, Thomas Frank and Adolph Reed Jr., offer a surprisingly interesting critique of the contemporary left and President Obama. Notwithstanding the unwieldy headline, "We Are All Right-Wingers Now: How Fox News, Ineffective Liberals, Corporate Dems and GOP Money Captured Everything," parts of the critique--though to be sure, only parts of it--could easily have come from conservative critics.

The format is an interview, with Frank (best known as author of "What's the Matter...